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US Navy - Ballistic Missile Submarine SSBN 731 - USS Alabama |
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Type,
class: Ballistic Missile Submarine, nuclear
propulsion - SSBN; Ohio class Builder: General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB), Groton, Connecticut, USA STATUS: Awarded: February 27, 1978 Laid down: August 27, 1981 Launched: May 19, 1984 Commissioned: May 25, 1985 IN SERVICE Homeport: Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington Namesake: State of Alabama Ships Motto: AUDEMUS JURA NOSTRA DEFENDERE (we dare to defend our rights) Technical Data: see: INFO > Ohio class Ballistic Missile Submarine - SSBN |
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 moored at Delta Pier, Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - Auigust 2022  off Washington - 2022  Pacific Ocean - June 2021  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - February 2, 2018  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - February 2, 2018  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - September 5, 2017  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - April 28, 2017  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - April 28, 2017  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - April 28, 2017  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - April 28, 2017  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - April 28, 2017  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - April 28, 2017  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - September 6, 2016  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - September 6, 2016  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - May 14, 2016  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - December 24, 2015  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - December 24, 2015  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - December 24, 2015  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - April 23, 2015  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - April 23, 2015  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - July 9, 2014  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - March 26, 2014  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - August 29, 2013  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - April 3, 2013  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - April 3, 2013  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - October 11, 2012  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - June 8, 2012  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - January 27, 2011  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - January 27, 2011  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - September 29, 2010  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - July 31, 2009  returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington - July 31, 2009  Point Loma, California - September 2000  Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Bremerton, Washington - May 1998  USS Alabama (right) and USS San Francisco (SSN 711) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - February 1991  returning to Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Bremerton, Washington - September 1988  returning to Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Bremerton, Washington - September 1988  returning to Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Bremerton, Washington - September 1988  returning to Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Bremerton, Washington - September 1988  returning to Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Bremerton, Washington - September 1988  mess deck - September 1988  commissioning ceremony - Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - May 25, 1985  commissioning ceremony - Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - May 25, 1985  commissioning ceremony - Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - May 25, 1985  sea trials - April 1985  under construction at General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB), Groton, Connecticut - circa 1983 (note the parts of future USS Alaska to the left) |
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USS Alabama (SSBN 731): The fourth Alabama (SSBN 731) was laid down on 27 August 1981 at Groton, Conn., by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp.; launched on 19 May 1984; sponsored by Mrs. Barbara E. Dickinson, wife of Representative William L. Dickinson (Ala.); and commissioned at Naval Submarine Base New London, Conn., on 25 May 1985, Capt. Wade H. Taylor (Blue Crew) and Capt. Malcolm S. Wright (Gold Crew) in command. Alabama sailed from the Connecticut coast three days later and carried out her shakedown cruise off Cape Canaveral, Fla. (28 May-9 June 1985). The Blue Crew completed its shakedown training late in July, and the fleet ballistic missile submarine moored at Port Canaveral for the Gold Crew to relieve the Blue Crew (22 July). At the conclusion of the Gold Crew’s shakedown training, the Blue Crew boarded again at Naval Underwater Sound Center, New London, on 20 October, and sailed Alabama back to the yard at Electric Boat for a post-shakedown availability. Alabama completed her sea trials in Narragansett Bay (13-22 December 1985). She returned to sea on New Year’s Day 1986, for sound trials as part of Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Project 113-2 at the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center off the Bahamas. Alabama completed that assignment on 30 January, and celebrated Mardi Gras with her namesake state during a visit to Mobile, Ala. (2-11 February). The boat passed through the Panama Canal (17 February), crossed the equator southbound and then northbound (both on 20 February), and moored to Delta Pier, Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Wash., on 6 March. Three days later, she shifted berths to the Explosive Handling Wharf and began a strategic weapons load-out. Alabama subsequently sailed deterrent patrols while operating from the Pacific Northwest. Alabama completed Patrol 9 in the North Pacific (22 June-1 September 1988). Two groups of midshipmen embarked when the boat conducted tactical torpedo load-outs at Pearl Harbor, Hi. (22 June-23 July and 30 July-1 September). The voyage also marked the 100th deterrent patrol carried out by a Trident-equipped submarine. Undersecretary of the Navy H. Lawrence Garrett, III, a former submariner, led the greeting party on Delta Pier at Bangor when Alabama returned, and he summarized the milestone: “…today we celebrate the 100th silent blow for peace and democracy in America and the world around us…While our strategic triad has held the line, Americans have hoped, imagined, invented, produced,” Garrett expounded. “Fleet ballistic missile submarines – and the men who take them to sea - are the heart and soul of our strategic triad.” Alabama provided the setting for the (fictional) motion picture Crimson Tide, starring Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington, released in 1995. The submarine made a one day orientation voyage for members of the Defense Advisory Counsel on Women in the Services, on 2 September 1999. Alabama offloaded the last of her Trident I C4 submarine launched ballistic missiles at the Explosive Handling Wharf, Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor, Wash. The submarine then completed a conversion that enabled her to fire Trident II D5 missiles, and a refueling overhaul (late October 2005-February 2009). As of April 2014, Alabama is part of Submarine Group 9 and her home port is at Naval Submarine Base, Bangor, Washington. As of January 2025, Alabama is part of Submarine Squadron 17 and her home port is at Naval Base Kitsap, Washington. |
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Alabama ... is a state in the Southeastern and Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area, and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states. |
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